illustration

Editors Chris Schaberg and Robert Bennett asked me to create a 16-page visual essay based off of Jaques Derrida quotes. These pages were included in the anthology Deconstructing Brad Pitt. Published by Bloomsbury Academic 2014.

cover page for color insert

“can one sign with a perfume?”

“he speaks in tongues or in a language that is foreign to every other human language”

Sixteen 3rd-graders at Batiste Cultural Academy in New Orleans wanted to make a book about their lives in New Orleans, and began by writing personal narratives. These pieces were given to local artists to illustrate. I was invited to illustrate one of these stories The Spirit of Christmas.